Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism
- 2 Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette
- 3 Dickens I: Great Expectations and vocational domesticity
- 4 Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home: institutionalization and form
- 5 Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt
- 6 A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda
- Afterword
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Persuading the navy home: Austen and professional domesticism
- 2 Homesick: the domestic interiors of Villette
- 3 Dickens I: Great Expectations and vocational domesticity
- 4 Dickens II: Little Dorrit in a home: institutionalization and form
- 5 Professing renunciation: domesticity in Felix Holt
- 6 A prejudice for milk: professionalism, nationalism and domesticism in Daniel Deronda
- Afterword
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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- Professional Domesticity in the Victorian NovelWomen, Work and Home, pp. 188 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998